The table on this page shows some of the important facts and figures for both Uganda and the UK. It's interesting to see that in many ways Uganda and the UK are similar. Their total sizes are not too dissimilar, and the percentage of arable land use is almost identical.

In other ways the countries differ enormously. The UK population is twice that of Uganda, with much lower infant death rates and longer life expectancy. If you have HIV/AIDS you are 16 times more likely to die from it in Uganda than you are in the Uk, thanks to better health care. However, there are roughly 10.5 million people living in poverty in Uganda and only 2 million fewer (8.5 million) in the same situation in the UK .

In the UK we use over 200 times as much electricity every year as Uganda does, despite our population only being twice as large, and we use almost 20 times as much water per person as Uganda does.

Information

Uganda

UK

Land area

199,710 sq km

241,590 sq km

Coastline

0 km

12,429 km

Climate

tropical; generally rainy with two dry seasons (December to February, June to August); semiarid in northeast

temperate; moderated by prevailing southwest winds over the North Atlantic Current; more than one-half of the days are overcast